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Skill formation plays a major role in employment, both quantity and quality. The growing pace of technological change, the need for specialized technical skills has become more pressing. The patters of skills required to be employed in modern leather and leather products manufacturing have changed, as well as the institutional structures around them.In the emerging competitive setting, there is a greater emphasis on flexible specialized high-level training.

Online and eLearning training courses are such opportunity. Facilitated online trainings, both as stand-alone courses and when combined with in-residence trainings, allow for greater interaction with trainers and significantly increase the impact of traditional trainings at very little additional cost. Furthermore, e-learning considerably extends the reach of trainings and opens them to different audiences. The innovative delivery format will make learning flexible, interactive and effective.

E-learning and on-line training is especially suited for motivated learners and offers distinct advantages such as:

1/ convenience,

2/standardized delivery,

3/self-paced learning and a

4/ variety of content.

UNIDO has prepared and developed e-Learning material avaiable for user on www.leatherpanle.org builds on Animated Visual Training Tools launched in 2011. There are several courses avaiable. Each course consist of several lessons and in some cases with tests.

Registered users can take advantages of training materials prepared by UNIDO (e.g. the Animated Visual Training Tool on effluent treatment, specific e-Learning materials that are presently being developed).

Module 3: Footwear Pattern Engineering: Learning material have been worked out together and closely related to each other. Ten designs have been chosen, which identify different market requirements, different fashion themes, different constructions, and different manufacturing processes.

The concept of e-Learning and its application in the leather and shoe industry (re)training is introduced in the survey "e-Learning in the Leather-based Industries" by Dr. Ferenc Schmél that was submitted to the UNIDO Leather and Leather Products Indutry Panel held in Shanghai, China in 2012. Blocks of the above chart represent the 21 modules of the complete course. Each of them is composed of 24-80 colorful and mostly highly animated slides, texts and flowcharts, terminology, pictures/illustrations, videos, references to outside resources. Each module offers a complete set of knowledge, explanation of methodology, instructions etc. covering the respective theoretical knowledge and related skills. In principle the learner needs no further sources for obtaining the necessary information (including options) and to develop her/his skills (e.g. in pattern drawing and cutting). A comprehensive test is made for each lesson for checking the efficiency of the learning effort.

Footwear pattern Engineering course and e-Learning courses for the leather, footwear and other leather products industries have been developed by UNIDO and TechnOrg

Registration to the course is free. Steps to have an access to the course:

Technology has gone a long way during the past decades. Information and communication technology (ICT) should make visible the impact of the present status of professional education and training applicable for leather and the manufacturing of leather products. Conventional training and learning methods and routinely suggested course durations, forms and arrangements suit neither today’s would-be employees or industrial operations.